anyone a member of a book club? C or D?

Otherwise, never been in a book club. Always wanted to though.

why does no one tell me these things? I tried to read F'sP a few years back (after the bar exam?) but didn't get very far (shocker)

I have a book club with two of my friends. I think keeping it small is key, otherwise someone goes Stalinist on everyone.

Last time we accidentally just got blazed and played Mario Kart, though.

Stoners. What were you reading?

French Lieutenant's Woman.

Last time we did Light in August.

We have only had two.

You need to be like me and read three books a week and then write about them on my blog and forget about them. Oops.

Ha, lately I read nothing like that a week, because my name is Emily, and I am addicted to the internet.

Ned you do not have time to read even one book a week in between posting to ILX and blogging. I'm calling bullshit.

It helps to be single, I think, if you want to read a copious amount of books. That's the excuse I make: married and one kid, you can't read that much anymore, unless you focus on *trashy* books. I'm lucky if I can finish a book in two weeks.

French Lt's Woman ist VERY rad! Read it in last year of high school for English class.

Ned you do not have time to read even one book a week in between posting to ILX and blogging. I'm calling bullshit.

And how wrong you are!

I mean, c'mon Matt, I *work at a library* -- this is like if I said I worked at Tower before it died and never got around to hearing any music there.

Yes -- it was rad! But controversial, in our group.

I'm liking being in a book club for a few reasons

1) Forces me to finish books by a certain date

2) Alleviates that lonely "Oh well, I've finished the book and have no one to talk about it with," feeling

3) Drinks with some good people who I might not be hanging out with otherwise

Yep. LOVE IT! Get to read and discuss cool books, sometimes ones I would never have picked for myself. The best thing about my book club is it is at my local library, thus there are all kinds of different people bringing their interpretations to the discussion. Currently reading Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. I'm loving this book too, really looking forward to the meeting.

i like my book club, although half the time i have to keep saying 'LETS TALK ABOUT THE BOOK' cos everyone seems to get distracted or not want to talk about it. always one person each month doesnt bother finishing it or like it, which is fair enough as you cant like everything. but at least TRY! do other ppl with book clubs take polls to see what everyone likes so they can pick something likely to be more popular?

We just take turns picking. I've only just done my second book with this club, but they've been at it for a while. Everyone else does give some input into the choices though. For example, my pick was Rabbit Run, before that someone picked the New York Trilogy, and apparently there had been a bunch of other books about lonely men too, so we all strongly discouraged the next person from picking The Moviegoer (which I had read anyway). Instead we're going to read Dog Soldiers, which is not exactly light, but at least it's not quietly sad.